Cape Magistrate Tells Mavericks Strippers They Are Beautiful – A Cape Town magistrate seemed bowled over on Monday as 12 attractive Mavericks strip club exotic dancers packed the dock before him, following their arrest last November. “You really are beautiful, hey!” magistrate Chumani Giyos said, causing ripples of laughter in the courtroom. [timeslive]

Beyonce Gets Fly Named After Her – A newly discovered horse fly in Australia was so “bootylicious” with its golden-haired bum, there was only one name worthy of its beauty: Beyonce. Researcher Bryan Lessard says he wanted to pay respect to the insect’s beauty by naming it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. [timesunion]

Court Leaves Top TV Porn Channel Decision To ICASA – TopTV may not broadcast pornography channels without the permission of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), the South Gauteng High Court ruled on Monday. [mail&guardian]

Google, Facebook Seek Halt To Case As India Objects To Content – Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., fighting a lawsuit in India against content deemed offensive by the government, asked a court to quash the case that underscores a clash over free speech in the world’s biggest democracy. [businessweek]

Facebook IPO Looking Set For May – According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given that the review by the Securities and Exchange Commission usually takes about three to four months. [allthingsd]

World Tourism Numbers Grow, Despite Crisis – International tourist numbers expanded in 2011 despite the economic crisis, the Arab spring and Japanese disasters, and will hit one billion this year, a UN body said on Monday. The number of international tourist arrivals grew by 4.4 percent to 980 million in 2011, up from 940 million in 2010, the Madrid-based United Nations World Tourism Organization said in an annual survey. [afp]

The Queen Will Not Be Getting A New Yacht – What do you get for a monarch who has almost everything? Not, apparently, a new yacht, at least not one paid for with taxpayer funds. That was the message Monday as a brief boomlet of support for the idea of providing Queen Elizabeth II with a new royal yacht to mark her Diamond Jubilee was quickly deflated by Prime Minister David Cameron. [associated]

Cruise Ship Captain Most Hated Man In Italy, As Death Toll Rises To 6 – The captain of the Costa Concordia has become the most hated man in Italy.Thousands have taken to the web to vent their fury at the so-called ‘Captain Coward.’ The official death toll rose to six yesterday when a man’s body was pulled from the tilting wreckage. The number of those still unaccounted for rose to 29 – 25 passengers and four crew. [dailymail]

Fears Cruise Ship Could Spark Ecological Disaster – Rescue teams are still searching for survivors in the wreck of the cruise ship which ran aground off an Italian island, amid growing fears that tonnes of fuel could begin to leak from the damaged hull. [abc]

Wikipedia To Shut Down In Protest Of Web Piracy – The wave of online protests against two Congressional bills that aim to curtail copyright violations on the Internet is gathering momentum. Wikipedia is the latest Web site to decide to shut on Wednesday in protest against the two Congressional bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, often called SOPA, and the Protect IP Act, which is often called PIPA. [nytimes]

Steve Jobs Action Figure Production Halted – An eerily lifelike Steve Jobs doll will not be sold because the company behind the product received “immense pressure” from Apple’s lawyers and the late CEO’s family to not sell the figurine. [latimes]

IBM Gives Birth To Amazing Email-less Man – When Luis Suarez decided to live in a world without e-mail, some of his colleagues thought he was making a mistake. After all, he works for IBM, one of the world’s top vendors of e-mail software. But Suarez was ready to cut the cord. Like any other 21st century white-collar worker, he was bombarded daily with around 40 e-mail messages. More than he wanted to answer. [wired]